Use of Automated Tools in Archaeology

1 October 1964

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity

Vol. 30 (2Part1) , 205-206
https://doi.org/10.2307/278856

Abstract

A device now being used in industry is suggested as a way to automate much of the labor of artifact description and comparison. This is a numerically controlled machine tool, and some problems and possibilities connected with its use are discussed.

Keywords

AUTOMATED TOOLS
ARTIFACT
POSSIBILITIES
LABOR
ARCHAEOLOGY A DEVICE
TOOLS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
MACHINE TOOL

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